Welcome to SPLASH 2016!

The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. SPLASH 2016 will take place from Sunday, October 30 to Friday, November 4, 2016 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Keynotes

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SPLASH 2016 Keynote: The Science of Deep Specification

Benjamin C. Pierce

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SPLASH 2016 Keynote: From DOT to Dotty -- Foundations and Types for Objects As Modules

Martin Odersky

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SPLASH 2016 Keynote: A Human View of Programming Languages

Amy Ko

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SPLASH-I/E Keynote: The dream of a lifetime: Shaping how our children learn computing

Simon Peyton Jones

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SPLASH-I Keynote: How to Tell a Compiler What We Think We Know?

Guy L. Steele Jr.

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SLE 2016 Keynote: Redex: Lightweight Semantics Engineering

Robert Bruce Findler

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GPCE 2016 Keynote: Lightweight Modular Staging (LMS): Generate all the things!

Tiark Rompf

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DLS 2016 Keynote: Ignition: Jump-starting an Interpreter for V8

Ross McIlroy

Invited Talks

Designing and Debugging Surveys with SurveyMan

Emma Tosch

Feedback-Directed Instrumentation for Deployed JavaScript Applications

Frank Tip

Exploratory Analysis in Virtual Reality: The New Frontier

Derek Jacoby, Yvonne Coady

Type-driven Development in Idris

Edwin Brady

Pony: Co-designing a Type System and a Runtime

Sylvan Clebsch

Making Mendix Meta Model Driven

Jos Warmer

From Soundiness to Soundness

Yannis Smaragdakis

Software Environmentalism

Tudor Gîrba

How Domain Requirements Shape Languages

Markus Völter

PLATEAU Keynote: How to Design a Programming Language

Alan Blackwell

Truffle and Graal: Fast Programming Languages With Modest Effort

Chris Seaton, Adam Welc

Adventures in Software Evolution

Robert Grimm

Rapid Development of Web Applications with Typed Metaprogramming in Ur/Web

Adam Chlipala

Language Support for Distributed Systems

Heather Miller

Simulating Cities: The Spacetime Framework

Crista Lopes

Fact or fiction? What software analytics can do for us (developers and researchers)

Andy Zaidman

Best-Effort Failure Reconstruction Using CSI: Crash Scene Investigation

Ben Liblit

Using Docker Containers to Improve Reproducibility in PL/SE Research

Jürgen Cito

What’s going on in the heap?

Sam Guyer

Snap!: Scheme Disguised as Scratch

Brian Harvey

Responsive Language Tooling For Cloud-based IDEs

Lennart Kats

From Tricorder to Tricium: Useful Static Analysis and the Importance of Workflow Integration

Emma Söderberg

Stencils: Graphical User Interfaces in Ensō

William Cook

The basic skill set of software language engineering

Ralf Laemmel

The elements of decision alignment: Large programs as complex organizations

Mark Miller, Bill Tulloh

Bootstrap: Build Bridges, not Walls

Emmanuel Schanzer

Small, simple and smelly: What we can learn from examining end-user artifacts?

Felienne Hermans

Metamorphic Testing for Compilers and Program Analysers

Alastair F. Donaldson

The high-interest credit card of runtime enforcement

Ben Livshits

Keynote: Lessons learned about language engineering from the development of mbeddr

Markus Völter

General Chair: Eelco Visser

OOPSLA Program Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis

OOPSLA Artifact Evaluation Chairs: Michael Bond, Michael Hind

Onward! Papers Chair: Emerson Murphy-Hill
Onward! Essays Chair: Crista Lopes

SPLASH-E Program Chairs: Matthias Hauswirth, Steve Blackburn

SPLASH-I Track Chairs: Tijs van der Storm, Eelco Visser

DLS Papers Program Chair: Roberto Ierusalimschy

Scala Chairs: Aggelos Biboudis, Manohar Jonnalagedda, Sandro Stucki, Vlad Ureche

SLE General Chair: Tijs van der Storm
SLE Program Chairs: Emilie Balland, Daniel Varro

GPCE General Chair: Bernd Fischer
GPCE Program Chair: Ina Schaefer

Workshops Chairs: Craig Anslow, Jan Rellermeyer
SRC Chairs: Sam Guyer, Patrick Lam
Posters Chairs: Jeff Huang, Sebastian Erdweg
Sponsorship Chair: Jurgen Vinju
Publications Chair: Alex Potanin
Publicity Chair: Tijs van der Storm, Ronald Garcia